Our Celebrities
Native American Actors - NativeCelebs (Annies is the #1 resource online.)
Annie at NativeCelebs on MySpace (Includes Singers, Bands and Music)
Charlie Hill and the First ever Indian Comedy Slam -
Indian Comedy Slam - LoLComedyFestival.com
63rd Gold Medal Tournament -- March -22-28, 2009
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4-peats in C Bracket - Teammates steal the show from repeat MVP Rudy Bean
in 115-97 win By Trent Makela | JUNEAU EMPIRE Juneau
Green keeps Masters title at home - Billings' 18 points, stream of 3-pointers
lead Green to win By Trent Makela
Huna
repeats in B with epic finish - Bracket's Most Valuable Player Travis
Dybdahl pumps in game-high 32 points for 87-84 win Saturday By Jeff Kasper
| For the Juneau Empire ... 2009
C & Master Brackets award winners
Gold Medal Basketball in Juneau is serious stuff - From Larry McNeil's Blog. (Photo by Larry McNeil)
Gold Medal Basketball coverage (Juneau Empire) ... 2009 Team Photos (Juneau Lions Club) ... Capital City Gold Medal 2009 Special Sections Page
NBA All-Stars Weigh In On Obama's B-Ball Skills (Huffington Post Video) CNN State of the Union host John King sits down with basketball greats Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Steve Nash, Grant Hill and Chris Paul to analyze the president's b-ball skills. Barack Obama Basketball Mixtape (Youtube) Barack Obama drains 3-point jumper on first try in Kuwait visting Troops (Youtube Video) ... Carlos Boozer interview ... 2008 USA Gold Medal Basketball Olympic Team
The History of Gold Medal with Dr. Walter Soboleff and members of the Juneau Lions Club ... Revisiting Q&A with legend Dewey Skan (Juneau Empire) ... Gold Medal winners by town (Juneau Empire) ... Gold Medal Hall of Fame (Juneau Empire) ... Three inducted into the Gold Medal Hall of Fame - The late Ivan Gamble, Sr, Glen Padgett and George Erickson
Cool Videos - Kobe Bryant can jump over cars? ... Dwight Howard can dance? ... ORIGINAL jabbawockeez ... Shaq & Kobe 09 NBA All-Star Game (YouTube) ... Current best music tributes by fans for ... Dwight Howard mix ... Kobe Bryant mix
Honoring all the Great Gold Medal defensive players and rebounders(Dennis Rodman Youtube) and WNBA Players
Three Native designers featured during New York Fashion Week - Virgil Ortiz, a potter and fashion artist from Cochiti Pueblo, N.M.; Patricia Michaels, a clothing designer from Taos Pueblo and Dorothy Grant, a Haida from Ketchikan Alaska who currently operates her company from Vancouver, British Columbia. By Eileen C. Shimizu, Indian Country Today correspondent (March 3, 2009) Diesel 'Liquid Space' Holographic Fashion Show
Army National Guard Bailey Johnson update - Gold Metal Basketball Star wins Boxing Title ...
Showtime at Southeast Showdown - 22-year-old Bailey Johnson wins title belt from Aaron "Red Baron Tucker" ...."I think this was the best fight of the night," said promoter Bob Haag .... also Shaun Guthrie and Tongan Toni Talamai all grabbed respective title belts at the 2009 Roughhouse Boxing Southeast Showdown Friday at Marlintini's Lounge by Courtney Nelson (May 15, 2009)
Reigning champ falls in Friday night fights - Angoon's Bailey Johnson surprises Juneau's "Red Baron" Tucker By Courtney Nelson | For the Juneau Empire. Twenty-two-year-old Bailey Johnson, of Angoon, shocked the packed crowd at Marlintini's Lounge Friday for the monthly Roughhouse fights. Johnson picked up an electrifying victory over 2008 Roughhouse Southeast Showdown Champion 19-year-old Aaron "The Red Baron" Tucker, of Juneau. For Fans of Aaron "The Red Baron" Tucker Aaron has sucessfully made the transition to extreme boxing and is a considered a future champ in this sport which combines martial arts and boxing. Bailey and Aaron two cool celebrities we wanted to honor!
Bailey Johnson served a 15 month deployment tour in Kuwait and Iraq with the Alaska Army National Guard. The Alaska Army National Guard also provided "around the clock" highway security for convoys driving in southern Iraq. Bailey was also a Gold Medal Basketball MVP in 2007 leading Angoon to the Intermediate Bracket Championship while on leave from the Middle east. Bailey Johnson is one of the Gold Medal Basketball stars in the B Bracket playing for Angoon today ... Honoring our Troops
Going for the belt: Juneau Boxing Legend Al "Mean Machine" Valentine (right) lands a punch on "Crown" Royal Hudson Friday night during the Roughouse Boxing Southeast Showdown. Valentine won the heavyweight title belt after defeating Hudson. Photo by David Sheakley / Juneau Empire ... Valentine reigns supreme - By Courtney Nelson | FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE (May 12, 2008). Al Valentine is a veteran of over a hundred pro and amatuer fights ... Also honoring Wayne "Koosh-da-ka" Fu, 58 wins one for the elderly By Courtney Nelson | For the Juneau Empire (February 15, 2009)
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean - Barrow film honored at Sundance festival Inupiaq-language drama can be viewed online today By SARAH HENNING (ADN)
Barrow Alaskas Suurimmaanitchuat Dancers marching in Obama's presidential inaugural parade (YouTube)
Barrow dancers step into Obama’s inaugural by TAMAR BEN-YOSEF (The Arctic Sounder )
Native Dance Group from Barrow to March in Obama's Inaugural Parade - Alaska Democratic Party
Facebook - Watch for the Inupiaq Eskimo Dance Group in the Inaugural Parade on Facebook - This event is planned to start at 2:30 pm on Jan 20, 2009.
Obama/Biden '08 ... supporters in Barrow, Alaska
Micki Free
American Indian Inaugural
Ball - The 2009 American Indian Inaugural Ball brings together Native
leaders, organizations, artists, musicians, and professionals from across
the country. Here are the
featured Performers - Jana, Joanne Shenandoah, Bill Miller, Michael Bucher,
Phoenix, Micki Free, Keith Secola, Martha Redbone, Shea Keck,Derek Miller,
Levi and the Plateros,Hawk, Gary Farmer, Casper.
Native Music Rocks and AIS put together incredible lineup By Vincent Schilling (Indian Country Today - January 21, 2009)
Yaaw Tei Yi Dancers, a Tlingit group from Juneau, Alaska who performed at the National Museum of the American Indian Multicultural Festival as Part of Inaugural Events.
Bono, Bruce, Beyonce to play inaugural concert - Reuters - By Jessica Letkemann NEW YORK (Billboard) - Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Bono and more than a dozen other music stars will kick off Barack Obama's presidential inaugural festivities by performing at the opening celebration at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial on January 18.
This is our very own online Rolling Stones concert for Obama/Biden, Senator Begich and our very own Senator Albert Kookesh - Alaska State Legislature.
Our experts on Alaskan Politics are Senator Albert Kookesh, Nancy Barnes, Dewey Skan and Georgia Lincoln.
Quyana Alaska (Video) ... Quyana Tlingit & Haida dancers from Anchorage (Video) ... More Quyana Alaska on Youtube ... at Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Fairbanks.
Archie Cavanaugh releases 'Love Birds' on MySpace
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Photo Left by Getty Images of David Blaine - Central Park .... Photo Right by Mario Miranda-Brasil of Artist Jesse Cooday
David Blaine begins 60 hour upside-down stunt in Central Park in New York City 8-23-08 - Downside to stunt he may go blind! ... David Blaine.com ... David Blaine's Dive of Death (8-24-08) We are also attempting to promote David Blaine to create art in Space. Space tourism is the future. Check out the Tlingit National Anthem retold by Robert Willard Jr. - His family version from Angoon - 4 Tlingit women volunteered to go under a dangous glacier ice cavern the Tlingit Nation followed. We have our favorite media picture of David Baine encased in ice for the event he did in Times Sq on the Willard's Tlingit Anthem story. Magician David Blaine Nominated for Consideration for First Ever Houdini Award From Scranton's Famous Houdini Museum.
Native
Voices: Contemporary Indigenous Art (New York CIty) - The 3 exhibits Include
Tlingit Artists Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Jesse Cooday, Nicholas Galanin and
Tanis Maris Seiltin ...
Kentler International Drawing Space February 8 – March 23. Kentler
Opening Pictures ... Native Voices at LIU opens March 6 - March 29
... Five Myles Exhibit March 9 -
April 19 ... Co-curators Deborah Everett and Raquel Chapa ... Exhibit
of Native art debuts in Brooklyn (Indian County Today) ... Native
Artist Nicholas Galanin Featured in five myles Exhibition
Native American Actors - NativeCelebs - famous American Indian celebrities, singers, bios, celebrity pictures, hollywood, models, movies, television info ... Our Celebrities: Irene Bedard (Inupiat and Cree) ... Sheila Tousey ... Adam Beach (Ojibwa) ... Graham Greene (II) ... Val Kilmer... John Trudell (Santee Sioux) ... Tantoo Cardinal (Metis/Cree) ... Wes Studi (Cherokee) ... Gary Farmer (Cayuga) ... Johnny Depp ... Evan Adams (Coast Salish) ... Gene Tagaban (Tlingit) ... Diane Benson (Tlingit) ... Dorothy Grant ,,, Rodney Grant (Omaha) ... Chris Eyre ... Pena Bonita …Rosario Dawson ... Quentin Tarantino ... ... Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Dakota) ... Terry Jones ...... Andrew Okpeaha McLean ... ... Jay Tavare ... Tommy Lee Jones .. Eric Schweig ... James Earl Jones ... Elvis Presley ... Rachel McLish ...Alex Rice (Mohawk) ... Ryan Victor Pierce ... Joe Cross ... Salli Richardson (Cherokee) ... Chaske Spencer ... Eddie Spears (Lakota) ... Rita Coolidge (Cherokee) ... Kim Basinger ... Jennifer Tilly ... Cameron Diaz ... Buffy Sainte-Marie ... Native Joy (Harjo) ... Jennifer Rice... Jason Turner ... Ulali ... Wayquay ... Leafarrow ... Spiderwoman Theater ... Lisa Mayo …Gloria Miguel … Muriel Miguel ... Jane Lind (Aleut) … Donna Couteau Cross ... Hortensio Colorado … Elvira Colorado … Coatlicue Theatre ... Pamyua ... Martha Redbone ... Native Joy (Harjo) ... Robbie Robertson ... Joanne Shenandoah ... Silverclound Singers ... Wayquay ... Roger Kuhn ... Jasmine Netsena ... John Trudell ... Pura Fé ... Indigenous ... Lila Downs ... Sami Sargent .. Sarain Carson ... Blackfire ... Soni Moreno ... Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie … Larry McNeil ... Shooweee ka ... Jason Lujan … Helen McNeil ... Nathen Jackson ... Miranda Belarde-Lewis ... Raquel Chapa ...... Brad Kahlhamer...Kathleen Ash-Milby… Jolene Rickard ... Paul Chaat Smith ... Rosita Worl ... Juane Quick-to-See Smith ... Ernestine Hayes ... Nora Marks Dauenhauer ... Walter A. Soboleff ... Jeri Nordstrom ... Shamseddin Williams ... Clarissa Hudson ... Teri Rofk ... Preston Singletary ...Little Big Band ... Archie Cavanaugh ... Smokehouse ... Nick Galanin ... Roy Peratrovich, Jr ... Israel Shotridge ... Norman L. Jackson ... Clarence Jackson. .... Pauline Johnson ... Yvette Lynn Diltz ... Edna Jackson ... Celeste Worl ... Kathleen Westlake ... Michael Dangeli ... Anna Brown Ehlers ... Fred Lauth ... Tommy Jimmie, Sr ... Marie Laws ... Florence Sheakley ... Louis Minard ... Ray Peck ... Jim Marks ,,, David Boxley ... Dempsey Bob ... Lda Kut Naxx Sati' Yatx'i (All Nation's Children) ... Alaska-Hawaii Youth Exchange Dancers ... Heinyaa Kwaan Dancers... Xaadas T'ak'anlang Dancers ... Dakwakada Dancers ... Daaxaat Kanadaa Dancers ... Keex' Kwaan Dancers ... Seet Ka Kwaan Dancers ... Shx' at" Kwaan dancers ... Kaats' litan Dancers ... Kaagwaantaan Dance Group ... Shangukeidi Dancers ... Git-Hoan Dancers ... Celebration 2004 Dance Groups ...Celebration 2006 Ddance Groups ... James Luna's emendatio ... Dawn Dumont.
Click Here to Watch Live Video of Artist Doug (Kevin) Chilton's Northwest Coast ocean-going dugout canoe at the Sealaska Plaza in Juneau. . SHI has commissioned Doug to make the traditional, cedar canoe for exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. The plan is to paddle the finished canoe up the Potomac River to Ocean Hall for the exhibit celebrating global oceans scheduled to open in September 2008. SHI Press release
Music and Radio
KNBA 90.3 FM ... Our Coolest Pacific Northwest DJs and Co-Winner for #1 Radio Station in the Universe!!
AVR 106.5 ... Indigenous and eclectic. Our Co-Winner for #1 Radio Station in the Universe!!
CKRZ 100.3 FM - Some of the Best First Nation DJs in the Galaxies!! ... one of Robbie Robertson's favorite
AIROS Radio ... Some of the Best Internet Radio, everyday and everywhere in the Galaxies!!
Earthsongs ... Co-Winner for #1 World -Wide Music ... Riding the four forces of nature highway!!
Catch UnderCurrent's Stream ... Co-Winner for #1 World -Wide Music ... Riding the 11-D highway!!
Archie Cavanaugh 'Love Birds' on MySpace Music
Archie Cavanaugh reissues the legendary Black and White Raven album
Some of our favorite artists
Blackfire ..."Overwhelming"
Pamyua - preforming throat-singing, a form of vocal-verbal art
Deep Forest - "Sweet Lullaby" ... Tarsem Video Director
Pura Fé ... The Band: Robbie Robertson … Natural Vibrations ... JoMaLa Jazz ... Jujuba
Bob Dylan … The Foo FIghters ... Raconteurs ... Kings of Leon ... John Trudell …Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers ... Gary Farmer & the Troublemakers ... Shoowee ka' & the Ravens ... Johnny Cash ... Willie Nelson ... Floyd Red Crow Westernman ... Sting ... Jackson Browne … Indigenous … Martha Redbone... Doors ... Iz Israel Kamakawiwo ... Neil Young ... Cannes Brulees ... Elvis Costello ... Prince ...... Little Big Band .. Talking Heads ... John Lennon … The Beatles ... Smokehouse ... The Rolling Stones … Pamyua … Natural Vibrations ... JoMaLa Jazz ... Jujuba ... The Chieftains ... Silvercloud Singers ... Bob Marley … Keith Secola …Coldplay ...Towers of London ... ... Jack Penate ... Beirut ... David Byrne ... Brian Eno ... Keola Beamer ... Dar Williams ... Robert Mirabal … Victor Wooten … Daniel Lanois … Bill Miller … Beck … Tori Amos … Mark Knopfler … Dub Syndicate … Casper … Nickel Creek … Bjork … John Fogerty … Michelle Shocked … Derek Trucks Band … Tracy Bonham … Zucchero … Son Volt … Allison Krauss … Leo Kottke … Duncan Sheik … John Mayer … Al Green … Cake … Steve Earle … Moby … Bobby McFerrin … Quetzal … Bebe … Randy Wood … Ali Farka Toure … Los Lobos … Suzanne Vega … John Prine … Roger Kuhn ... Wayquay ... Sly Stone … Cream ... Jim Pepper …Tracy Chapman … Lila Downs ... Joanne Shenandoah ... Ulali ... Matou ... Laura Ortman ... Bonnie Raitt … Buffy Sainte-Marie ... Pura Fé ... Taj Mahal ... Native Joy (Harjo) ... Starrwatcher Online! ... kd lang ... Jasmine Netsena ... The Wallflowers ... James Brown ... Litefoot .... Woody Guthrie ... Blackfire ... Ramones ... Hank Williams ... Elvis Presley ... Pearl Jam ... Green Day ... U2 ... Little Steven Online ... Jimmy Wolf ... Peter Townshend ... Eric Clapton ... Jimi Hemdrix ... Sanatana ... Linkray ... Bruce Springsteen …
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U2 and Green Day "The Saints Are Coming" - Videos
Beirut @ mccarren Pool, Brklyn (Video) Beirut (MySpace)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Iz Israel Kamakawiwo (Native Hawaiian)
The six-piece band Smokehouse, from left, Archie Cavanaugh, vocals, bass & guitar; Walter Jack, vocals & guitar; Donnie Wells, drums; Doug Badilla, vocals & keys; and Mike Tamer, vocals & guitar. New guest singer Salissa Cooper is not pictured.
Northkut Wolf Pack ... Big E ... Trueyez ... Southside Totems ... UTVONLINE
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Seattle glass artist Preston Singletary has formed the eight-piece Little Big Band (Article), a group of musicians and artists throughout the Lower 48. The group includes Singletary, singer Star Nayea, flute player and Tlingit performer Gene Tagaban, Southern California performance artist James Luna, trumpet player James Rasmussen, guitarists Maurice Caldwell and Keith Montgomery and drummer Terry Maloney.
Benefit Concerts
THE LONGEST WALK 1978 - 2008 ... The Longest Walk (MySpace)
Sacred Run 2006
Benefit Concert Artists,
Runners and Supporters...Sacred
Run Calendar from San Francisco (February 11), New Orleans,
United Houma Nation March 25th Concert Headliners: Don't
Lose Hope (MP3) by Cannes
Brulees ... Martha
Redbone ... Treaters ... C*ReAL Films has filmed the entire Sacred
Run event, from the Benefit Concert in San Francisco to the arrival in
Washington DC. .. .Sacred
Run needs your help with unexpectedly high gas costs ! ... First
plans for Sacred Run 2008. Plan now to participate!
Support Six Nations Land Reclamation! June 16: Concert for Kanenhstaton (The Protected Place). Emcees: Gary Farmer, Cheri Maracle, Brandon Oakes and Adam Beach. Artists include: Keith Secola, Willie Dunn, Diggin Roots, Moiety, David R. Maracle, Raven and Shoshona, Jacques and the Shakey, Tonto's Nephews -"Native Skit Artist", Little Wolf, Joseph Firecrow, Howard Lyons, Shane Anthony Band, Jasmine Netsena. Plus Many More! ... also resource link Six Nations Solidarity news ... What you could do.
Artists
Charlie Hill Comedian
Jay Thomas' "Lone Ranger" (Video) Story on David Letterman ... also Dropping A 300lb. Safe On A Buick (Video)
Our most favorite humorists Charlie Hill & the Club Red Players ... ... Will Rogers ...Dawn Dumont ... The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert of The Colbert Report
Raven Trickster Larry McNeil Creation Stories Raven Stories - Larry McNeil's photographic work offering his perspecitves of the Native American experience has been honored by the National Geographic All Roads program
Revisiting Celebration 2006 ... More Photos from Sealaska Heritage Site ... The festival included dance performances, a juried art show and competition, a Native artist market, a black seaweed contest, a baby regalia review, a language fair and a parade through downtown. Celebration was broadcast live on statewide television and on the internet. Smokehouse and Little Big Band also performed.
Adam Beach praised for portrayal of Ira Hayes. Colleagues say Native actor Adam Beach could earn his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Ira Hayes in "Flags of Our Fathers." Beach nearly lost the part of Hayes, the Pima man who helped raise the American flag
Honoring our Troops and Veterans
Ndnsports.com | World Eskimo-Indian Olympics | Iditarod Sled Dog Race | Famous Native Athletes Site |
NCAI Embassy of Tribal Nations: Join us
WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2006: Day for Night: Jimmie Durham’s film, Pursuit of Happiness, depicts the rise of a fictitious Native American artist, played by Anri Sala, who makes it to the top after a successful show of art made from garbage. Opens March 2, and remains on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through May 28, 2006.
TRUDELL A documentary by Heather Rae ... FEB 24, 2006 New York NY Quad Cinemas ..tour information ... JAN 14, 2006 Anchorage, AK... Alaska Native Heritage Center Film Festival
NASA - Exploring the Universe ... John Herrington First Native American in Space ... Space Tourism ... Virgin Galactic ... (Video) Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo ... Space telescope to hunt planets ... The Elegant Universe
Movies Recent and in Production - by Native Newworks...Opportunities for Filmmakers and Screenwriters